The road west felt different.
Not physically—the same terrain, the same highland track that would eventually reach Ren-Sarath and beyond it Kael's Seat. But the sovereign seed was reading differently now. The Source Point integration had added a layer to the carrier function that changed what the road looked like through the substrate.
He could read the deep pressure.
Not the path-layer, not zone ambient, not road network architecture. What was below all of that—the geological substrate's deep layer where the pressure that produced Rifts and entities and zone systems originated. He had been walking over it for months without being able to read it. Now the Source Point integration was open and the sovereign seed read through it continuously, the way Dragon Mode read through zone ambient continuously.
The world looked different from below.
